On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Cranky Frankie wrote:

.... Plus, Python is
syntactically elegant - there are no semi-colons or braces for program
blocks, just indentation by tabs or spaces. It really makes for
beautiful looking code.

Bah! Active whitespace is the work of the devil. Anybody who has had to find where the tabs have been replaced by spaces in a Unix Makefile knows this. If you want nice indentation you can easily do that, as a matter of style, but it should not be enforced as a matter of grammar. I like other features of Python, but using indentation to specify (more like imply) scope is just wrong (IMHO).

-Eric

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